Yet thou heardest them not, neither didst know them, neither yet was thine ear opened of old; for I knew that thou wouldest grievously transgress: therefore have I called thee a transgressor from the [a]womb.

For my Name’s sake will I defer my wrath, and for my praise, will I refrain it from thee, [b]that I cut thee not off.

10 Behold, I have fined thee, but [c]not as silver: I have [d]chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 48:8 From the time that I brought thee out of Egypt: for that deliverance was as the birth of the Church.
  2. Isaiah 48:9 As it was my free mercy that I did choose thee: so it is my free mercy that must save thee.
  3. Isaiah 48:10 For I had respect to thy weakness and infirmity: for in silver there is some pureness, but in us there is nothing but dross.
  4. Isaiah 48:10 I took thee out of the furnace where thou shouldest have been consumed.

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